A Future Camp Classic

TITLE: HONEY, I BLEW UP THE KID

DIRECTOR: RANDAL KLEISER

WRITERS: THOM EBERHARDT, PETER ELBLING AND GARRY GOODROW

THE BOTTOM LINE: Paced like a cheerful comedy, the movie busily denies its true, quite perverse nature.

Godzilla with diaper rash? The terrible twos writ terribly large? How to characterize a film about a baby whose eccentric inventor father accidentally turns him into a 112-ft.-tall monster and who toddles off toward the bright lights of Las Vegas, wreaking innocent havoc along the way?

The film's creators resolutely play it for laughs. The actors gamely keep striking comic poses and speaking their lines just...

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